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3 Count: Grand Theft Copyright

Plagiarism Today

1: Ex-White House Photographer Sued for Copyright Over His Own Photo: ‘You Can’t Make This Up’. First off today, Bevan Hurley at The Independent reports that former White House photographer Pete Souza says that he is facing legal threats over his use of a photograph he took on his own website. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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The Copyright Legacy of Martin Luther King

Copyright Lately

The New York Times reported on Dr. Martin Luther King’s copyright lawsuit over “I Have a Dream” in 1963. Shortly after his “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered in August 1963, King moved for a preliminary injunction preventing record companies from selling copies of the speech. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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When a vampire not called Dracula bested the copyright system, and what it tells us about derivative works

The IPKat

The report goes that Grau's inspiration for the movie came from hearing stories about vampires from local farmers in Serbia, this while he was serving in the German army in 1916. However, there was no longer copyright protection of the book in the U.S. However, there was no longer copyright protection of the book in the U.S.

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IP Reveries: Class 1 – IPR: A Tantalising Term or Troubling Terminology?

SpicyIP

For e.g., copyright does not actually protect a particular physical copy of the book or its pdf file, rather, it protects what lies inside it. . They didn’t need permission to borrow from the public corpus or public domain. Definitely, I will not like somebody copying it without my permission. Very annoying!

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

43(B)log

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Wikimedia Foundation, Jacob Rogers: DMCA compliance lead for 7 years. Careful justifications/written record when we make those exceptions.

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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works.

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The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

Velocity of Content

Significant amounts of content are also available through the public domain. Additionally, in science publishing, under “ open access ” business models, copyright owners employ open licensing which sometimes allows licensed reuse for AI under the terms of such licenses. Rather, such uses fall under the general copyright regime.